Watch Francis Pump Himself Up For World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

Channeling Mel Gibson’s Braveheart in this new video, Francis gets totally psyched for the next World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria. Totally. Psyched.

I Finally Uncovered The Mental Map Of My Own City, Thanks To A Game

Like so very many of my neighbors, I may live more-or-less in Washington DC now, but I’m not really “from” here. I relocated from points north in 2008, for a promising relationship and a good job. (Both of which, happily, worked out well.) That’s four years now that I’ve lived here, though, and my mental…

Here Are A Bunch Of Pokémon Crossed With Alpacas Because Why Not

You know what would be cool? If someone crossed a bunch of Pokémon characters with alpacas. Oh wait, yuumei already did. Alpazard, aka Charizard Alpafeon, aka Leafeon Alpacoddish, aka Oddish Alpakachu, aka Pikachu Alpacapi, aka Togepi Alpacion, aka Typhlosion Alpacreon, aka Umbreon Alpix, aka Vulpix Alpactrio, aka Dugtrio The Alpacamons [maid-en-china]

Totino’s Pizza Rolls: The Snacktaku Review

In 1968 Jeno Paulucci, the creator of the Chun King line of pre-packaged Chinese food, took an egg roll wrapper and stuffed it with pizza toppings. America has had terrible heartburn ever since. Jeno’s Pizza Rolls, now Totino’s Pizza Rolls, have become a staple of snack cuisine around the world, the poster snack for putting…

Here’s The Kinect Teaching Us All About Animals

Witness Kinect: Nat Geo TV, or at least witness a Kinect mini-game in Kinect: Nat Geo TV. It’s teaching our video editor Chris Person all about animals, as you can see in this clip.

The Dorkly Weekly: Wrong Backpack, Banjo!

Banjo is a bear with a bird named Kazooie in his backpack. What is Banjo without Kazooie? Dead, apparently. For more sick and twisted video game comedy, follow the link to Dorkly.com

A Borderlands 2 Reset Bug Is Making Players Less Badass

There is a rather nasty reset bug out there that seems to be hitting certain players of Borderlands 2 In Borderlands 2, players earn badass tokens for completing certain challenges. Tokens can be spent on skins and upgrades. As reproduced above by YouTube user RyogaWanderer, players affected by the bug are finding their badass totals…

This Statement Nails What Was Great about the Super Nintendo’s Best Games

The above quote, from Mark MacDonald, of the Tokyo-based game localization company 8-4, sums up what felt so special about the best games on the SNES. It rings true for all-time greats such as Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, which emerged within a year of the system’s…

Write (And Re-Write) Letters Of Intrigue In This Fantastic Free Game

If you’ve written an email to a friend, spouse or lover, chances are you’ve gone through a few drafts. “How do I address him?” “Should I be so callous?” “Maybe I shouldn’t close with a joke?” “How would she read this part?” “Too many exclamation marks!” “I don’t want to sound flippant.” “How shall I…

Let’s Enjoy the Old-Time Feel of This Amazing Mechanical Donkey Kong Machine

This contraption looks like an alternate-reality version of the arcade game that pretty much saved Nintendo. No pixels are present in engineer Martin Raynsford’s laser-cut re-creation of Donkey Kong but you do control Mario via an NES hooked up to servo motors. This first attempt only lets you jump as Mario but Raynsford writes that…

Borderlands 2 Is Actually A Turn-Based RPG, And Other Completely Incorrect Facts

YouTuber and insane person BlackLightAttack has a knack for completely and intentionally misinterpreting games to silly results. His latest mutilation: Borderlands 2 For my favorite line, skip ahead a little bit 60 Second Let’s Play: Borderlands 2 [BlackLightAttack]

Ex-PlayStation Spokesman: ‘You Have To Question The Priorities Of The Company As A Whole’

An ex-Sony PR representative has publicly slammed his former company following a recent round of layoffs that left him out of work late last week. It’s hardly unusual for laid-off staffers to harbor ill will toward their former employers, but ex-PlayStation PR Will Powers voiced some striking criticism on Twitter this afternoon. He had harsh…

World of Warcraft Developers Have “No Particular Fear” Of Windows 8

Windows 8 doesn’t officially launch until October, but the dramatic changes to the OS most gaming PCs use have already proven quite controversial. Earlier this year, Blizzard EVP of game design Rob Pardo echoed Gabe Newell’s sentiments about Windows 8. Newell had called the OS a catastrophe, and Pardo replied via Twitter that Windows 8…

Nothing Goes Together Like Porn Mags And Final Fantasy

Like chocobos and characters named Cid, pornographic magazines are a proud tradition in Final Fantasy games. We’ve seen erotic mags in Final Fantasy IV, The After Years, V, VI, VII, VIII, and now Final Fantasy Dimensions, the new iOS game that’s surprisingly fun, albeit pricy Here’s the full scene: Remember when Final Fantasy games didn’t…

The Tiniest Mobile Game Controller Will Help You Find Your Keys

Creating convenient game controllers for mobile phones and tablets is a big thing. Black Powder Media’s iMpulse is a tiny thing. The keychain game controller / key locator is looking to Kickstarter as a sort of early release program. The iMpulse is a Bluetooth controller with four buttons and a control pad, which should be…

Yes, Some of Us Here Are Obsessed With FarmVille 2

We know what some of you will think of us. We’ve heard it from our colleagues. FarmVille 2? Really? You’re playing that? We are. And we’re enjoying it. Can’t deny it. The three offenders on the staff are me, Kirk Hamilton and Mike Fahey. We’ve discovered that this game, like its predecessor, really does compel…

Skyrim‘s Character Creator Is So Advanced That You Can Select Elbow Pointy-ness

Who actually feels compelled to be as thorough as selecting elbow pointy-ness when creating your character in Skyrim? Is elbow pointy-ness even a thing? Ah screw it. I’d probably spend a few minutes scrutinizing that slider. Both myself and College Humor, apparently. Hardly Working: Skyrim [College Humor]

All The New Things Mists of Pandaria is Adding to World of Warcraft, In One Big Trailer

Mists of Pandaria launches tonight. (Or, from an East coast point of view, very very early tomorrow morning.) It’s only the fourth expansion to World of Warcraft in nearly eight years. So what will it be adding to the game? Well, lots. Blizzard has helpfully provided this seven-minute launch look, complete with dramatic music, at…

What Facebook is Playing This Week

With six of ten of the most-played games this week from one development studio, perhaps I should call this new weekly feature “What Zynga Games Facebook is Playing This Week”. Of course that wouldn’t be fair to the fine people at King.com, whose Bubble Witch Saga and Candy Crush Saga make a fair showing in…

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